Moderating Severe Personality Disorders

Theodore Millon, PhD, DSc, formerly Professor at Harvard Medical School and the University of Miami, is currently Dean and Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology in Coral Gables, Florida. Dr. Millon is one of the world's leading authorities on psychopathology and personality disorders. Developer of the widely used Millon personality assessment inventories, he has been the editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders, President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, and a key member of the DSM-III and DSM-IV Task Forces. Seth Grossman, PsyD, is a codeveloper of several personality inventories, and coauthor of numerous theoretical, research, and clinical papers with Dr. Millon. He is also the coauthor with Dr. Millon of Personality Disorders in Modern Life, Second Edition (Wiley).

• Preface ixPart OneCHAPTER 1 Personalized Psychotherapy: A Recapitulation 3Part TwoCHAPTER 2 Personalized Therapy for the Retiring/Schizoid Personality Patterns 51CHAPTER 3 Personalized Therapy for the Shy/Avoidant Personality Patterns 85CHAPTER 4 Personalized Therapy for the Pessimistic/Depressive Personality Patterns 123CHAPTER 5 Personalized Therapy for the Aggrieved/Masochistic Personality Patterns 159CHAPTER 6 Personalized Therapy for the Eccentric/Schizotypal Personality Patterns 195CHAPTER 7 Personalized Therapy for the Capricious/Borderline Personality Patterns 225CHAPTER 8 Personalized Therapy for the Suspicious/Paranoid Personality Patterns 271References 313Index 335

"…deals with the more severely impaired patients such as those with borderline personality disorder….excellent examples of the Millonian writing style that will be familiar to his many readers…highly structured, well organized, yet quite readable, offering well-reasoned logic as well as wonderful case examples. The descriptions of the various personality disorders and their subtypes must compete for the absolute best characterizations of those disorders available in the clinical literature. Those descriptions alone are worth the price of these paperback books." (PsycCRITIQUES, 7/30/08)